The only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERThe only dependable law of life – everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.
DOROTHY PARKERThat would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERWhere unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.
DOROTHY PARKERI was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
DOROTHY PARKERI hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.
DOROTHY PARKER[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this?
DOROTHY PARKERAnd I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
DOROTHY PARKERTake me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.
DOROTHY PARKERThe best way to avoid a hangover is to stay drunk.
DOROTHY PARKERQuick!! Act as if nothing has happened!
DOROTHY PARKERMen seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
DOROTHY PARKERI’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
DOROTHY PARKERThe cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.
DOROTHY PARKERThe definition of eternity is two people and a ham.
DOROTHY PARKEROh, seek, my love, your newer way; I’ll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!
DOROTHY PARKER